As it storms outside and rains hard, I try to find peace and balance to follow the spiritual path from the middle. Bipolar, a left half in the autism spectrum and a right half in the schizophrenic spectrum of the brain are a side effect of creativity. Creativity of creative, material and psychological leads to spirituality. Spirituality is one of the advantages of the REM state.
The right half, the place of fantasy and emotions, as part of the large brain, part of the cerebral cortex, is controlled when it goes well by the rational, logical thinking and analysis of the left half. The corpus collosum . the bundle of nerves that separates the hemispheres of the brain, also called the brain beam, acts as a bridge or blockage for the processing of information. It seems that in autism, which is physically expressed not only in one place of the brain, but in larger networks over longer distances less jobs are visible in this brain beam. Which would be a consequence rather than a cause of autism. The idea is that people could function without a brain beam. The two hemispheres can still communicate with each other and the brain can develop normally.
It seems that there is no excuse so to the possibility to look up the middle road when you are not already there. Bipolar in practice means as much as blowing back and forth between two extremes, one moment cheerful, driven and optimistic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By moment I mean a period of time that is relative. The state of mind in which someone is in may last an hour, a day or for example months. Someone can then always stay in the same state of mind. In any case, a middle road is a long way to go.
Here too, meditation, yoga and Mindfulness can help, in addition to medication that is also there. Creative people are more likely to become bipolar than less creative fellow people. Creativity in turn is again a prerequisite for spirituality, for spiritual behavior. Spirituality is almost always a struggle between the light and the dark, from two sides, to make a choice for extremes it seems. But what if you don't make the choice and are both late? The middle road, the road of the TAO. The resulting uniformity does not have to be boring, but can be an enrichment and offer opportunities for development that you may not now think possible.
